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NITED STATns IVILLIAM M. SAUSSER AND JACOB M. SAUSSER, OFV SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA.

VlCTUAL-PROTECTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,048, dated. September 16, 1902.

. Application iled March 14,1902. Serial No. 98,245. (No model.)

To all whom it muy concern:

Be it known that we', WILLIAM M. SAUssER and JACOB M. SAUSSER, residents of Schuylkill Haven, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedeertain new and useful Improvements in Yictual-Protectors; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention,such as willenableothersskilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices in the nature of false bottoms for boilers, pots, kettles, and the like and which are preferably terme( victual protectors, since in use they are adapted to serve that purpose by keeping material being cooked away from the bottoms themselves,which frequently become overheated.

The main object of the invention is to improve this class of devices, which in certain forms are old. i

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a plan view of the device. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section thereof and of a boiler or kettle in which the device is placed in position of use. Fig. 3 shows the device in a different :form of receptacle. Fig. l is a central vertical section of a modification.

In the preferred form the protector is a sheet-metal diskgl, the main or central partof` thebodyofwhich is tiat,but whichhas stamped in it several projections 2, which are convex on the upper side of the disk and concave below. In the same portion of the body of the disk are several convex projections 3 on the opposite (the lower) side of the disk and form.

ing concavities on the upper side of thedisk and which serve as legs. There should be several of the lower projections--say fourninety degrees apart, just inside the crimped band. When further support is necessary, a like downward projection may be formed vat the center of the disk, (see Figs. l, 2,) though generally this is not required, but may be to keep the disk from sagging at the center whenA material resting thereon is heavy. The body of the disk has numerous perforations 4 distributed among the described projections. Around the outer edge of the disk and an in- 4on its lower side.

tegral part thereof is a crimped or ribbed band-like part 5. The ribs extend substantially radially (though preferably at a small angle to the radii) of the disk, and the angle thereof may be changed without departing from the principle of the invention. This ribbed band portion is preferably bent upward a little from the main plane of the disk, though this is not essential.

6 isa flat-bottomed cooking-kettle, in which the victual-protector is shown in position of use. The downward convex projections 3 form legs or supports for the device, holding it a trifle above the kettle-bottom. The upper projections are adapted to hold material being cooked from intimate extended Ycontact with the body of the disk. The ribs of part 5 strengthen the disk and also serve to keep material, as meat, from resting flat on the surface of the disk in its edge portion and form small passages for iiuid under the meat where it rests thereon.

Figi. 3 shows the protector in position of use in a kettle havinga bottom ledge 7, in which case the lower or leg projections 3i may or may not reach the central part of the bottom. The upward bend of the ribbed portion 5 and also the ribs reduce the area of contact between the kettle and the protector and reduce danger of burning material being cooked.

Fig. 4. shows that the ribbed band 5' may be horizontal instead of being bentup, as above'described. This ligure shows the main part of the body of the protector convex, with convex projections 2 on its upper side and convex projections 3, adapted to serve as legs, The lower projections in this form ot device are not always essential, but are preferably used.

We claiml. A victual-protector for use in the bottom of cooking vessels, consisting of a sheet-metal plate, there being several rounded projections on the upper side of the protector-plate, and integral therewith, and perforations in the plate distributed among said projections.

2. A victual-protector, for use in the bottoni of cooking vessels, consisting of a sheet-metal perforated plate, there being several rounded projections on the upper side of the protec- IOO tor-plate and integral therewith, and similar but reversed projectionson the opposite side of the plate and serving as legs.

3. A vietual-proteotor, for use in the bottom of cooking vessels, consisting of a sheet-metal perforated plate, there beingY several rounded projections on the upper side of the proteotor-plate and integral therewith, and an integral ribbed portion surrounding the part having said projections.

4. Avictual-proteetor, for use in the bottom of cooking vessels, consisting of a sheet-metal perforated plate, said plate having integral projections, and a ribbed portion around its periphery.

5. A vietual-proteotor, for use in the bottom of cookingvessels, consisting ofa circular perforated plate having integral projections, a

ribbed portion around the peripherj7 of the plate, said ribs being at an angle to the radii of the plate.

6. A vietual-proteetor for use in the bottom of cooking vessels, consisting of a sheet-metal plate, there being several integral projections extending from the plane of the plate upward,and separate projections extending from the plane of the plate downward, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof We have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM M. SAUSSER. JACOB LWL SAUSSER. Witnesses:

JOHN H. LENGEL, JOHN A. KAUTERMAN. 

